The 6th Australian Division in the morning launch an attack on the perimeter of the port Tobruk. It would fall by the next morning and this would be extremely valuable to the Allies: deep waters would allow large ships to dock and it was surrounded by escarpments which were useful for fortification against the inevitable attacks.

Allied ships dock at the port of Tobruk, Libya, for the first time.

Officials in Vichy France (a authoritarian state under Nazi rule) ordered to swear loyalty to Chief of State, Marshal Philippe Pétain, who would later be charged with treason.